1918 Drexel Dragons football team

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1918 Drexel Dragons football
ConferenceIndependent
1918 record0–1
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumStrawbridge & Clothier Field
Seasons
  1909
1919  
1918 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Bucknell     600
Princeton     300
Army     100
Buffalo     610
Columbia     510
Syracuse     510
Pittsburgh     410
Boston College     520
Rutgers     520
Franklin & Marshall     210
Geneva     420
Swarthmore     420
Harvard     210
Fordham     421
Villanova     320
Penn     530
Lehigh     430
Dartmouth     330
Wash. & Jeff.     220
New Hampshire     221
Lafayette     340
Brown     230
Tufts     230
Penn State     121
Drexel     010
NYU     040

The 1918 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) during the 1918 college football season.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
November 28 Villanova Philadelphia, PA L 0–33

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